Rava idli recipe | How to make rave idli | Karnataka style soft rave idli | Semolina idli recipe
By Latha on February 15th, 2017
Rava idli or rave idli recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Rava idli or rave idli is very popular instant breakfast recipe in Karnataka. Rava idli or rave idli is prepared using rava or semolina, curd, mustard, coriander leaves, cumin seeds, urad dal, gram dal, curry leaves and ginger.
Rava or semolina is nothing but cream of wheat and in this recipe medium sized rava is used. You can find more rava or semolina recipes on this website like rave rava dosa, uppittu (rava upma), rava kesari bath, rave unde or rava laddu, >rave parota or rava paratha and rava roti.
In this rava idli recipe I have used "eno fruit salt", which is easily availabe in pharmacy. Or you can use baking soda. You can even prepare rava idli without fruit salt and without baking soda but idli will be little hard. Rava idli or rave idli is an instant breakfast recipe. And we have posted many instant idli recipes like pumpkin idli, cucumber idli and apple idli. Instant idlies are easy and quick. But I feel, taste wise the traditional soft idli prepared using urad dal is ultimate.
You can serve these tasty rave idli or rava idli with coconut chutney or sambar or veg sagu.
You can find many breakfast recipes on our website. So please have a look on them. Now let's get on to the rava idli recipe.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 2
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 cup medium rava or semolina
- 1 cup curd or plain yoghurt (slightly sour is preferred)
- 1/4 cup finely chopped coriander leaves
- 1/4 tsp baking soda or 1/2 tsp eno fruit salt
- 1 tsp oil or ghee (for greasing idli plates)
- Around 1/2 cup water
- 8 - 10 cashews
- Salt to taste
Ingredients for tempering: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 1 tsp gram dal or chana dal
- 1 tsp finely chopped ginger
- 1 tsp finely chopped curry leaves
- 1 green chili finely chopped
- A pinch of asafoetida
- A pinch of turmeric powder
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
Instructions for making rava idli or rave idli:
- Heat a frying pan. Prepare tempering using mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal and gram dal (chana dal).
- Add in finely chopped ginger, green chili and curry leaves. Fry for a while.
- Add in turmeric powder and asafoetida. Please note turmeric powder is an optional ingredient.
- Next add in a cup of medium rava or semolina (upma rava). You can add some cashew pieces also along with the rava.
- Add cashew pieces along with the rava. Roast the rava until you get nice aroma under medium flame. This will take around 2 minutes.
- Switch off the stove. Add in salt and chopped coriander leaves. Give a quick mix.
- Wait until warm. Add in a cup of curd. Rava idli tastes good with slightly sour curd.
- Also add in required water and prepare batter having regular idli batter consistency. I have added around 1/2 cup of water.
- Add in baking soda or eno fruit salt. If you are adding baking soda, then rest the batter for 10 minutes. And if you are adding eno fruit salt prepare the idlis immediately.
- Grease the idli plates with oil or ghee and drop the batter.
- Steam cook it for 7-8 minutes. Place the idli plates only after the steam starts. Do not over cook the idlis.
- Serve soft and tasty idlis with chutney and potato sagu.
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